Nico Santos Quotes
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When I moved to L.A., I had no intention of really pursuing acting. I wanted to focus on stand-up. It's crazy to me that my acting career took off much faster than my stand-up career.
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I hate that femininity in a gay men is a 'stereotype.'
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My dad was undocumented for a period of time, my mom was also undocumented for a period of time.
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My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.
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People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.
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It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
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I came out to one or two people in high school and then it wasn't until I was a freshman in college that I was fully out of the closet. It was like the late '90s.
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The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.
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First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.
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Superstore' is, like, my fifth acting job.
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We must work to change in our hearts and minds what it looks like to be undocumented. It is the high schooler dreaming of college who isn't aware of his status. It is the single mother working grueling hours in a warehouse just to provide for her children. It is the family that sits next to you in church. It is your neighbor.
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I've done retail before.
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What I've come to find out is it doesn't matter if you're selling a $10,000 gown or toilet paper: The everyday sort of humdrum of customer service and retail is the same.
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Within the Filipino community, everybody knows somebody who's undocumented.
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It's really mind-boggling to me when I think about where I started and where I am now. It's kind of insane.
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My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.
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I often get asked which 'Superstore' episode is my favorite. That's such a hard question to answer. It's like being asked: Which of your children (and by children, I mean shoes) do you like best?
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My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.
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I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.
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Femme people exist, and they are layered and they are complex and they are intelligent.
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You rarely see a Filipino family on TV.
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I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.
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In the early '80s, my family vacationed to the United States.
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In high school the very first job I got was I worked as a cashier in Burgerville, which is this fast food place in Oregon. I kind of grew up to be a spoiled little kid so my dad was like, 'You're going to get a job for the summer!' I was this clueless immigrant like, 'May I take your order? Sorry sir, I don't know what I'm doing!'